A brave police officer in Georgia risked his life to save a three-year-old boy from a burning building.

The footage, released yesterday, was captured on the officer’s body camera. Taken on January 1, it shows Sgt. Joe Hudson as he enters the house, struggling against the smoke as he searches for the child.

Hudson says of the events: “I was looking everywhere and couldn’t find him. Smoke was starting to get to me, so I grabbed some clothes off her bed and put ’em to my face. [I] opened that door and he was laying there on the bed, and I immediately grabbed him and ran out.”